Yun Suknam biography

Born in Manchuria, China 1939
   
Education
1983-84 Pratt Institute Graphic Center, New York, U.S.A.
  Art Student League, New York, U.S.A.
   
One Person Shows
1998 "Yun Suknam" Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1997 "The Seeding of lights" Chosun Ilbo Art Gallery, Art Space Seoul
  and Hakgoja
  Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
1996 "Yun Suknam" Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  "Yun Suknam" Johyun Gallery, Pusan, Korea.
1993 "The Eyes of Mother" Kumpo Art Museum, Seoul, Korea.
1982 "Yun Suknam" Fine Art Center, Seoul, Korea.
  Selected Group Shows
1997 "Portraits of Our Times" Sungkog Museum, Seoul, Korea.
  "Versus III" Velan, Torino, Italy.
  "MANIF" Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea.
  "Apartment" Art-Beam Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
1996 "Art 27'96 Basel" Basel, Switzerland
  "'96 Seoul Art Fair" Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea.
  "'96 Korean Art, New Sensation" U.S.A., Mexico, Sweden.
  "Exhibition of Environment Art, The 200th Anniversary of Suwon
  Fortification"
  Suwon, Korea.
  "An Aspect of Korean Art in the 1990s" The National Museum of
  Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
  "Tradition/Tension:Contemporary Art in Asia" The Asia Society,
  New York "Asia-Pacific of Contemporary Art Triennial" Quensland Art
  Gallery, Australia.
  "Development of Korean Modernism, Conquest of Modern 1970-1990"
  Kumho Art
  Museum, Seoul, Korea.
  "Interpretation of Human" Gallery Savina, Seoul, Korea.
1995 "Special Exhibition for Korean Contemporary Art, Tiger's tail" Venice
  Biennial,Venice, Italy.
  "Korean Modern Art" Art Museum of Peking, Peking, China.
  "Korean Sculpture Now" Jongro Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
  "Looking Mirror in Our Time" Dong-a Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
  "The Road of Self-respect" Kumho Art Museum, Seoul, Korea.
  "Korea, 100 Self Portraits/From Choson to Contemporary" Musse De
  Seoul, Seoul, Korea.
  "Exhibition Seeds" Sonjae Art Center, Seoul, Korea.
  "Korean Art 1995/Quality, Quantity, Sensation" National Museum of
  Contemporary Art Kwha/cheon, Korea.
  "Where are you going?/Exhibition for 50 years from 1945" Seoul Art
  Center, Seoul, Korea.
1994 "Technology, Environment & Information" Expo, Deajon, Korea.
  "Commemoration for Cetennial Donghak Revolution" Seoul Art Center,
  Seoul, Korea.
  "15 years of Minjoong Art" National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea.
  "Women, Difference and It's Power" Hankook Art Museum, Seoul, Korea.
1993 "Across the Pacific" The Queens Museum of Art, New York, U.S.A. and
  Kumho Art Museum, Seoul, Korea.
  "Open Show" Park, Youngduk Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
  "Re-open Show" Korea Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
  "Peak of Contemporary Korean Art" Min Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
1992 "Women and Reality" Min Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
1988 "Cross Encounter of Women Liberated Poets and Paintings" Min Art
  Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
  "Women and Reality" Min Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
1987 "Women and Reality" Min Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
1986 "From half to One" Min Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
1985 "October Group Show" Kwanhoon Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
  Selected Reviews/Biographies
1996 Yun Suknam, Art Asia Pacific, vol. 3 no. 3, 1996 p. 66-67, Australia.
  Today's Artist, YUN SUKNAM Paik Jeesook, Wolganmisool, vol. 8 no. 7,
  1996,Seoul, Korea.
  An Aspect of Korean Art in the 1990s Catalog edited by the National
  Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
1995 "The Tiger's tail" Published National Museum of Modern Art,
  Seoul, Korea.
  "Korean Women Artist's Festival 1995" Catalogue published Seoul City
  Museum, Seoul, Korea.
1994 "The Portraits of 20th century Korea" Jeawon publishing company.
  "On Yun, Suknam" Gana Art Magazine, July/August, P26, Seoul, Korea.
  "Across the pacific" Catalogue published The Queens Museum of Art,
  October 15,Queens NY, U.S.A.
1993 "Sculpture for motherhood" Sisa Journal weekly Magazine, Vol 189, P84,
  Seoul, Korea.
  "The story of half world that carved on wood" The Monthly art magazine,
  July/August, P 26, Seoul, Korea.
  "For women, for Art, for wholeness" The quarterly magazine Pine Hill,
  Summer, P16, Seoul, Korea.
  "The changing of feminism art" the Joo-Ang daily newspaper, June 7,
  Seoul, Korea.
  "The eyes of the Mother" the Choson daily newspaper, June 7,
  Seoul, Korea.
  "New Structure of feminism art" The Women's News, June 11, Seoul, Korea.
  "Self-Portraits of Korea" Hangyerea daily newspaper, July 21,
  Seoul, Korea.
   
Public Collection
National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea.
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbana, Australia.
Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Mie, Japan.
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan.
   
Award
1997 The Vice-President Price for Woman Development.
1996 The 8th Lee, Joong-Sup Award, conducted under the sponsorship of
  the Chosun daily news paper, Seoul, Korea.

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